by Jasmine Griffiths | Jun 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
East Sussex County Council successfully applied for Active Travel England’s Active Travel Fund 4 to support schemes that encourage people to become more active and help reduce carbon emissions. The capital funding, will help develop initiatives to make it safer and...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jun 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
This page provides the Labour Market Statistics for May 2023, provided by the Institute for Employment Studies. IES says “Overall, our view is that today’s figures show that labour demand is continuing to hold up. However, with higher worklessness due to...
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jun 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
This IES blog post by Principle Associate, Stephen Bevan explores the factors which drive the decision to resign regardless of sector.
by Jasmine Griffiths | Jun 4, 2023 | Uncategorised
Edge Foundation’s latest insight into the UK skills landscape shows little change in the past six months. However, while the impact of social and economic challenges continues, their 12th bulletin explores how improved government and employer leadership can...
by Jasmine Griffiths | May 30, 2023 | Uncategorised
A small, local ITP delivering apprenticeships, wants to collaborate with a similar organisation looking at teaching skills, sharing best practice and undertake peer reviews. Their delivery is flexible rather than day release. If you are interested or need further...
by Jasmine Griffiths | May 30, 2023 | Uncategorised
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has called for policy reforms to bridge the £43billion rural-urban productivity deficit in its latest report – The Growth Belt: Supporting Rural Small Businesses into rural trade. The report sheds light on the hurdles...
by Jasmine Griffiths | May 30, 2023 | Uncategorised
This joint Department for Business and Trade and DfE page shares the third annual progress update to the International Education Strategy (IES). This update summarises progress against the IES ambitions and all outstanding actions. The IES sets out the UK government’s...
by Jasmine Griffiths | May 29, 2023 | Uncategorised
While the Apprenticeship Levy has many strengths, the system is not currently delivering the number of high quality apprenticeships that our country needs – with young people, those from disadvantaged backgrounds and SMEs being hit the hardest. In the Reforming the...
by Jasmine Griffiths | May 29, 2023 | Uncategorised
The global economy is changing rapidly. New technologies, coupled with demographic and environmental change, will continue to disrupt national economies and their labour markets in the coming decades. These changes will impact the jobs available and the skills needed...
by Jasmine Griffiths | May 29, 2023 | Uncategorised
A potential crisis for British manufacturing needs to be averted. Not enough young people are not entering the sector to replace workers leaving the industry, while training is falling behind other countries in delivering on the manufacturing skills needed by firms....